ORLANDO, Fla. — Central Florida didn’t take long to hire someone to lead its rejuvenated football program.
The university announced Tuesday that Josh Heupel will be the Knights’ next football coach. The move comes about 72 hours after Scott Frost announced Saturday he was leaving UCF to become the coach at Nebraska.
Heupel, who has been the offensive coordinator at Missouri the past two seasons, inherits a Knights program that just finished 12-0 to win the American Athletic Conference title. The Knights will play Auburn in the Peach Bowl in Atlanta on Jan. 1. He will not coach the Knights in the bowl game, but will watch in from a booth at Mercedes-Benz stadium.
Heupel helped Sam Bradford win a Heisman Trophy winner as offensive coordinator at Oklahoma and getting Missouri’s offense on track over the past two seasons.